to each ford, make arrangements to be informed quickly of the approach of the enemy, and can then unsaddle, put his regiment in the shade, and find forage for it. Please see to it at once.

Respectfully,

WILL RUMSEY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA,
Leetown, September 9, 1864.

Lieutenant GASS,

Twenty-second Pennsylvania Cavalry:

SIR: The general wishes you to remain in Martinsburg until obliged to retire by the enemy. When you do retire you will do so to the stone bridge on the Opequon, on the Shepherdstown road. You will hold the bridge until further orders. Put a small picket at the bridge at once.

Respectfully,

WILL RUMSEY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HANCOCK, September 9, 1864.

Major-General KELLEY:

Just returned from down road. All quiet at Sleepy Creek; the men there have been scouting; report all quiet around that country.

P. B. PETRIE,

Captain, &c.

HANCOCK, September 9, 1864.

(Received 9.35 p. m.)

General KELLEY:

Water fallen very much, but not fordable yet; about one foot and a half past fording. If it keeps on falling as it has to-day it can be forded to-morrow night.

F. B. MILLER.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, September 9, 1864 - 10 p. m.

Governor BROUGH,

Columbus:

The Adjutant-General Reports that the last of your 100-days' regiments left here to-day. This, I think, brings the proper time for a suitable official acknowledgment of their services, and it will be given promptly.

EDWIN M. STANTON.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, No. 18.
September 10, 1864.

Hereafter the chief quartermaster of corps and other independent commands will submit, on the 10th and 25th of each month, to the chief quartermaster of the army, statements, approved by their commanding